It was working a few time ago... Trying to bootstrap a MySQL server during a package build, to run test suite, I run (so under an unprivileged account) %{_libexecdir}/mysqld --datadir=$PWD/data --initialize This fail without any explanation (works when run as root)
Hi Remi, I created upstream bug for this: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=87087
Based on the MySQL bug report, this issue should be fixed in 5.7.20 version.